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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>HI Jon, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think this message may have been misdirected toward me, tho, of course, I am happy to have it. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>‘n<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nicholas Thompson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Clark University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jon Zingale<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 30, 2020 8:49 PM<br><b>To:</b> friam@redfish.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] quickening<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Nick,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>The constraints of D&D are in part set by what is interesting for the</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>development of collaborative storytelling. It is crucial to recognize</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>that while a game, it is <i>not an adversarial</i> game (except perhaps at</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>the meta-level where each player is attempting to troll the DM†). Besides</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br>this</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'> subjective constraint, there are </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/BookIndex"><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>compendia</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'> (continually under development)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>which have evolved the objective constraints for the game. The word <i>campaign</i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>is used because the game is designed with the intention of developing a</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>story arc (with many sub-arcs) which can take years to tell. The campaigns</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>that I am a part of are predicted to be five-year campaigns. In one campaign,</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>our characters have a key which opens a secret door to 1970's Tokyo, there</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>is ample freedom to explore fantastic domains far from traditionally high-</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>anglo-fantasy.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>you write:</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br></span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#333333'>"By the way, I keep hearing programs on NPR that suggest that 5G will<br>eliminate life as we know it."</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Have you heard any of the various conspiracy theories surrounding 5G and</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Covid-19? A couple of weeks ago, an elderly woman on the bike path stopped</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>me to express one. Curiouser and curiouser ;)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Jon</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>†) use google.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>